ELSEWHERE

That's definitely something I feel like I've noticed, Oz seemed to do better after the emergency vet fluids and after the primary vet fluids. I'm hoping fluids today will help too

She still hasn't eaten today and also has no interest in the baby food. It looks very like nausea to me, moving away from offered food and lip-licking. I'm worried the phos-bind upset her stomach, I will need to be more careful about it being given with a meal but I didn't expect her to refuse food this morning. It's also not going to be super effective today with no food to bind to phosphates from.

She can have another dose of her nausea med in about two and a half hours, hopefully that helps.

Oh, she did pee in the litterbox and climb back out of it earlier without falling over, and she also tried to climb up the cat tree at one point. She couldn't do it, and naturally I don't want her on the highest parts of it in case she falls, but I've put her on the lowest tier where she's been sleeping on a cushion all afternoon

Gave her fluids, her nausea med, and now her anemia med. She's walking around on her own, has drank water and gone to the litterbox on her own. I'm really concerned, though, because she hasn't eaten since I think 4 o'clock this morning and it wasn't much when she did. She's showing no interest in her wet food nor any of the kibbles we have, and will barely eat the baby food. All I've gotten her to eat is most of a piece of turkey lunch meat just now. I don't know what I can do

It's not just that she needs to eat but also that I'm afraid the "wrong" food could spike her kidneys again

Ohhh poor baby, I'm sorry. I hope you can find something she can eat.

Vet today. With some small changes to medications and dosages, the vet wants me to keep doing what I'm doing. The focus is on getting her to gain weight, and letting the anemia med do its job. In two weeks we go back for another check in.

Oz is gone

I'm glad you were there for her, and wish you peace while you grieve.

Mom brought her home in a bucket, in 2010. I was just about to move in to an apartment with Jake, and mom said every home needs a cat, so this was my housewarming present.

She was so small and so starved that everyone told me not to get attached. I fed her kitten formula for a few days and then she transitioned easily to solid food. She was so food insecure she would growl if you touched her food while she was eating, but she never attacked over it. She growled the way most cats hissed, and only picked up hissing when Jake got a cat, Luna.

She wasn't very fond of being pet, but accepted them in a way that said to me she knew how important they were to me. After you were done petting her she would immediately clean herself to get her scent back in order. She followed me everywhere, spent all of her time with me, until I moved in with Lee and Erik and that specific cat situation made it impossible.

She didn't like cuddles except on her terms. She would decide she wanted in my lap with singular determination, expression focused, and she would put herself there regardless of if there was anything in her way. She liked sleeping next to me, her back tucked a little under my leg.

I would give her catnip by holding the container, and she would hold my hand and rub her face all over the opening. For a while, I could throw a treat and get her to find it by hotter/colder. We would play catch, tossing a hair band at her and she would grab it out of the air.

She trusted me implicitly. I would take her to the vet and she would come back like she knew I wouldn't do that to her unless it was necessary.

She saved my life. She got me through hell. I'm going to miss her so so so so so god damn much.

I don't know if pets can reincarnate, but I hope she finds her way back to me some day. I hope she gets some rest and comes back when she's ready.

She's my sweet baby girl. I love her. I hope she's okay.

I'm partly numb and partly waiting for her to come home